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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913-1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012 - This version: April 18, 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
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The turnaround of the Swedish economy : lessons from large business sector reforms
Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2019
How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during … sector. In the 1990s, Sweden implemented a reform package that ignited a successful reorganization of a business sector that … of Sweden's reforms. We also discuss how the reform experience from a developed country such as Sweden can be useful for …
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Globalisation and the decoupling of inflation from domestic labour costs
Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2021
We provide novel systematic cross-country evidence that the link between domestic labour markets and CPI inflation has weakened considerably in advanced economies during recent decades. The central estimate is that the short-run pass-through from domestic labour cost changes to core CPI...
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Cheating in labour markets
Drouvelis, Michalis; Kocher, Martin - 2021
Our results from a laboratory experiment offer new evidence for the detrimental effects that cheating behaviour in the workplace may have on the degree of reciprocity between firms and workers. First, we replicate existing findings showing that in the absence of monitoring (cheating is possible)...
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The policy drivers of self-employment : new evidence from Europe
Mourougane, Annabelle; Égert, Balázs; Baker, Mark; … - 2020
Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388242
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Macroeconomic shocks and racial labour market differences in the U.S.
De, Kuhelika; Compton, Ryan A.; Giedeman, Daniel C.; … - 2019
Using 136 United States macroeconomic indicators from 1973 to 2017, and a factor augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions, we investigate the effects of three structural macroeconomic shocks - monetary, demand, and supply - on the labour market outcomes of black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157899
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Cousins from overseas : the labour market impact of a major forced return migration shock
Bohnet, Lara; Peralta, Susana; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2022
We study the labour market impact of a major shock of return migration, following the end of the Portuguese Colonial War in 1974. The retornados influx is unique because of its size (half a million people in a country of nine million), and similarity with the native population (almost 80% of the...
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Social interaction and sickness absence
Lindbeck, Assar (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor);  … - 2008
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Arbeitsmarktreformen in Schweden
Zierahn, Ulrich - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 88 (2008) 10, pp. 681-687
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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power
Dahlberg, Matz (contributor); Lundqvist, Heléne (contributor) - 2008
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...
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